Category Archives: PHP Development

phptags – tidies up tags in PHP scripts and guards whitespace

Posted on 2 Jan 2012 by

Just stumbled over another PHP related tool today, which I think is worth the link: phptags is a simple commandline tool to tidy up open and close tags in PHP scripts. It can rewrite close tags, and strip leading or … Continue reading →

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Vanity is on github.

Posted on 22 Oct 2011 by | Leave a comment

Flow3 went gold

Posted on 21 Oct 2011 by

Flow3 Version 1.0 is officially out. The Typo3 spin-off is a full featured PHP application framework with modern software design approaches. After the release of Symfony 2 in July it looks like that 2011 is the year of the next … Continue reading →

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Geany 0.21 released!

Posted on 12 Oct 2011 by

The news is already ten days old, but better late than never: Geany 0.21 released. Geany is a fine GTK2 based editor, I use it normally for quick PHP writing. Nice PHP lint, shell and manual integration.

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Exception Best Practices in PHP 5.3

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QueryPath PHP Library to deal with XML/HTML esay CSS-like access and manipulation. Code available at Github.

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When Flat PHP meets Symfony

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List of PHPMD Rulesets

Posted on 12 May 2011 by

As I only use PHPMD from time to time only I always need to lookup the default ruleset names from the filesystem. As google is faster than a search on the harddrive, here they are: codesize design naming unusedcode I … Continue reading →

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PHP: Extending stdClass with Closures (plus Visitor)

Posted on 30 Mar 2011 by

From the red-wine department: $this remains unresolved so of limited use, but some fun anyway: And before you ask: It’s just that I was wondering the following did not work:

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PHP: is_null() vs. NULL ===

Posted on 29 Mar 2011 by

From the know your language department: If you can, go with the identical comparison operator ===. That’s a good approach in PHP for various reasons. Only one example: could be written as: but it is about more than 14 times … Continue reading →

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apigen looks clean.

Posted on 24 Mar 2011 by | Leave a comment

CoSign: Secure, Intra-Institutional Web Authentication – Open Source Web Single Sign-On. “An open source project originally designed to provide the University of Michigan with a secure single sign-on web authentication system. cosign is part of the National Science Foundation Middleware … Continue reading →

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Common MVC Interfaces in PHP

Posted on 19 Nov 2010 by

Interested early adopters might want to follow some additional public repositories at github. Looks like there is some initiative to streamline PHP interfaces for diverse PHP based MVC implementations. Namely Zend Framework and Symfony. Name of the baby: FIG. Short … Continue reading →

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APDT: Aspect PHP Developement Tools

Posted on 26 Oct 2010 by

The Aspect PHP Development Tools (APDT) project is a Eclipse platform based tool for AOSD in PHP. The goal is to deliver a user experience consistent with the PHP Development Tools (PDT) when working with PHPAspect projects and resources. The … Continue reading →

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phpRack

Posted on 30 Jun 2010 by

phpRack is a light framework for automation of integration tests. By integration tests software module run in the production environment to validate configuration and applications setup. Read On: phpRack Documentation

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Eclipse Helios and PDT 2.2 [UPDATED]

Posted on 25 Jun 2010 by

On 23 Jun 2010 PDT 2.2 has been released. PDT is a PHP development environment within Eclipse, a full featured IDE. Eclipse PDT is available to donwload on it’s project site.

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QueryPath – Find your Way

Posted on 25 May 2010 by

QuerPath is another PHP library for working with XML and HTML. Licensed under LGPL/MIT it self-announces it with the following features:

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Tools: WebSVN

Posted on 19 May 2010 by

I ran over this by need and I must say in the end I’m pretty confident with: WebSVN is a PHP script/webapp that publishes one or multiple Subversion-Repositories as HTML on the fly.

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Nwire Eclipse PHP Plugin Review

Posted on 14 Apr 2010 by

I’ve seen nWire announcing their plugin on some blogs and they offer a free trial for it. Since I’m a Eclipse PDT userette I wanted to give it a testdrive. Here we go:

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PHP Mess Detector

Posted on 12 Apr 2010 by

Another tool for maintaining and control PHP sourcecode is PHPMD – PHP Mess Detector. A spin-off project of PHP Depend: What PHPMD does is: It takes a given PHP source code base and look for several potential problems within that … Continue reading →

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